Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, reporter and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth30 October 1946
CityNew Rochelle, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Andrea Mitchell quotes about
american-journalist traded
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
american-journalist dollars drop job newsroom program union
Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
determined kerry people
This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
driven
You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.
understanding covering details
I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
powerful men thinking
[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
husband trying federal-reserve
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
cities people care
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
party garden years
... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.
order world way
journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.
letting-go heart dark
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.
morning eight perfect
They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
italian cities philadelphia
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.
american-journalist calling interviews locations work
To get interviews for their newscasts, I'd work the phones, calling locations to find someone I could interview when a story broke.